• SC Veterans Center offers aid to homeless
  Teams of South Carolina health providers, community workers and therapists are coming together to offer medical screenings and services to the homeless in Columbia.

• Ahoy! SC group sponsors nautical flea market
  Barnacled bargains abound at a flea market intended for South Carolinians who already have their sea legs.

• Fort Hood officer: family not surprised at heroics
  The stepmother of the police officer who shot an Army psychiatrist suspected of the Ford Hood killing spree said Friday the woman's heroics are not surprising.

• SC zoo to let animals chase leftover pumpkins
  A South Carolina zoo is gearing up for a smashing good time.

• Police: SC baby sitter hit slain child with belt
  Authorities say a baby sitter in South Carolina watching a 3-year-old girl who died in her care beat the girl with a belt after she used the bathroom on the floor.

• 2 fishermen rescued 20 miles off SC coast
  Two fishermen have been rescued after they were found clinging to a life raft 20 miles off the South Carolina coast.

• South Carolina Editorial Roundup
  Herald-Journal on curbing Medicaid abuse, Nov. 6:

• SC couple sues company for hiring accused arsonist
  A South Carolina couple has sued a Georgia-based security company for hiring a guard accused of setting fires.

• 2 SC children removed from roach-filled home
  Two children have been removed from a South Carolina home that deputies say they found infested with roaches, and their parents have been charged with neglect.

• Woman gets life sentence in SC cheerleader's death
  A South Carolina woman who held down her husband's high school cheerleader girlfriend as he stabbed her to death to prove his love was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

• USF student won't face deportation proceedings
  A 23-year-old Egyptian man acquitted of terrorism-related charges won't face deportation.

• 2 SC students trying to get on school bus struck
  Two South Carolina school children were treated at a hospital after they were hit by a car during their morning walk to the school bus.

• Trucking president is new member of SCDOT board
  A trucking executive is the newest member of the South Carolina Department of Transportation Board.

• SC post holds 1st graduation for Navy chaplains
  The Navy is graduating 29 chaplains in the first such ceremony since a South Carolina Army post moved a training center from Rhode Island last year.

• Emotional Fla. sheriff celebrates baby's survival
  Sheriff Bobby Haddock knew time was running out for a 7-month-old girl missing in the Florida Panhandle.

• SC plastic surgeon's medical license suspended
  South Carolina's medical board has suspended the license of a plastic surgeon who it says left an operating room for hours during surgery and had sex with staffers who became his patients.

• Graham, DeMint agree on military detainee trials
  South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to North Charleston's Navy brig, but say they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.

• Southern Dems cast wary eye at election results
  Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.

• SC among states reporting 'widespread' swine flu
  South Carolina is back among the list of states reporting the swine flu is widespread.

• SC high court says gov's ethics probe is public
  South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel can be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe.

• SC high court says gov's ethics probe is public
  South Carolina's Supreme Court says the ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel can't be kept secret.

• Senate blocks census citizenship question
  Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens.

• Chief of NC hospital out after veterans complain
  The director of the Fayetteville VA Medical Center is retiring amid reports of dissatisfaction among employees and patients at a hospital that has struggled with adversity for more than a decade.

• SC Air Guard wins F-16 competition in Jordan
  A South Carolina Air National Guard unit is the winner of an international F-16 competition.

• Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail
  An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.